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I don’t normally read PS3 news, as I’m not a PS3 owner, but this little nugget found its way to me via Twitter. I clicked through it because it features an interview with Bethesda Softworks’ Pete Hines, and I was hoping for maybe an accidental TES V: Skyrim nugget. Instead, I’m presented with a great deal of information about how games are developed these days. David Thomas points out that the length of the console cycle has increased, and may be on its way to a 10-year cycle, rather than the old 5-year one.
Compare all this to something I picked up on Fudzilla, and we clearly see two ends to the spectrum: Consoles gunning for “Triple-A” titles, and mobile devices and social networking sites picking up the casual gaming end, both of which seem to be quite profitable. Where’s the middle ground? And where does PC gaming fit into all this? I have no answers, only questions.
People have decried the end of PC gaming for years, and some can’t wait for it to go away (to be fair, this guy wrote this bit before anyone knew what the real impact would be). Yet, there is still a thriving community of dedicated PC gamers out there, waiting for a return to its glory days. Maybe this 10-year cycle will help that along. Maybe a few years from now, developers will tire of building for the same hardware. Those that want to push games into the next generation will have no choice but to develop for PC first–that is the only platform that is growing, technologically, into places we’ve never been before.
Maybe we PC gamers will have our day, yet. Until then, we’ll be here, waiting, upgrading, and hoping.

I decided to sell my Xbox 360 today, because I never use it. I’m a PC gamer, and the whole thing was really just an exercise in futility. I used to game on consoles. Once I switched to PC, consoles just don’t cut it. I don’t think I can go back.